A few weeks ago, Hearst Corp's Esquire announced that they'd debut a snazzy new "augmented reality" issue and be the first publication to take the relatively new technology into its pages. AR, the hot new trend in iPhone apps, layers data, images and video Read More
Last Friday, at the World Media Summit in Beijing, chief executive of the Associated Press Tom Curley and News Corp's papa lion Rupert Murdoch continued to growl at aggregators like Google News, YouTube and Wikipedia for "stealing" their content.
"We will no longer tolerate the disconnect between people who devote themselves—at great human and economic Read More
"Hair is really a big motivator for women," said Nicole Stagg, a curly-haired brunette and Hearst Digital Media's director of content strategy. She was on the phone with the Observer after Hearst Corp's Monday announcement that the publisher of Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire and Harper's Bazaar would launch a new digital venture called RealBeauty.com. Read More
It’s been more than three years since the Hearst Corporation has been looking for a tenant to fill the 14,000-plus-square-foot ground floor of its now not-so-new Lord Norman Foster–designed tower at Eighth Avenue and 57th Street.
Sources attribute much of the delay to the Hearst Corporation’s style of decision-making. Any retailer must be approved not only Read More
Last week, Fortune reported that Hearst will soon unveil its own version of the Kindle: a portable, wireless electronic reader you can use to download all the contents of Esquire or Cosmopolitan. Though Hearst will develop it, it’ll be available for other publishers to use for their own content. Is this the future? Magazines making Read More
“A lot of people are really, really down in the dumps about what January looks like,” said Jay Lauf, the publisher of Read More
Last night, Oprah Winfrey made her much-hyped guest appearance on NBC's 30 Rock, playing herself. At one point, 30 Rock's Liz Lemon (played by star and showrunner Tina Fey), high on a tranquilizer, says to Ms. Winfrey, "I didn't get my September issue of O Magazine. Do you have the number for Read More
Despite his catch phrases, Project Runway winner Christian Siriano is struggling to transform his reality TV fame into sales. [WSJ]
Tom Ford on the rumor that he's difficult to work for: "I don't think I'm a megalomaniac, though you'd have to ask the people who work with me. Either we click or they Read More
Portfoilio's Mixed Media blogger Jeff Bercovici reports that Hearst's CosmoGirl has folded.
A statement from Hearst (quoted by Mr. Bercovici) reads:
Hearst Magazines has made a strategic decision to consolidate its teen publishing activities into Seventeen, the largest-selling monthly teen magazine on newsstands. Effective with the December issue, CosmoGirl will cease as a print magazine, Read More
Here's Hearst's latest project: Food Network Magazine.
Now is not the time to launch any magazine, unless of course it's in luxury, or in the other category that's been doing swift business in this ugly year: Food.
Recently, Hearst has struggled with launches. From The New York Post's Keith Kelly:
[Hearst] has shut down Quick & Read More
Back in April, Esquire editor David Granger told the Observer he had no worries that the Internet would make magazines unnecessary, as, arguably, it has done with newspapers. But if magazines want to flourish in the Internet age they have to capitalize on the direct, textural experience they provide that the Internet can't.
“Magazines have Read More
So Victor Ganzi quit as CEO of Hearst yesterday, and with some shades of Jane Friedman's departure from HarperCollins, no one really knows why.
In The Times, Richard Pérez-Peña writes that "Mr. Ganzi’s fall after six years came as a surprise to executives at Hearst and some of its major joint venture partners, and Read More
The publishing behemoth recently closed on 811 Ninth Avenue for $17.1 million, according to city records. Lightning quick would be appropriate terminology for how rapidly this deal went down: Hearst went to contract and closed on the 21,500-square-foot property on Read More
William Randolph Hearst was the Rupert Murdoch of his day. “He is,” President Teddy Roosevelt once wrote, “the most potent single influence for evil we have in our life.” Hearst inherited his father’s newspaper business and kept going: At his peak, he owned 28 major newspapers and 18 magazines, not to mention radio stations and Read More
“Every time someone’s like, ‘I saw you on TV!’, I think, ‘ Nooo!’” said Atoosa Rubenstein, the editor in chief of Seventeen magazine, covering her eyes. “I feel like a D-list reality star.” It was the evening of Monday, Oct. 17, and she was standing at a club called AER in the meatpacking district, clutching Read More
